Declawing Cats - Illegal in most developed countries, but not the USA.

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Would never even consider it even after my cat has left a few permanent scars on me.

I just have to make sure his claws are clipped reguarly and he has ready access to his scratching post.
 
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I also clip my cat's nails while he's sleeping, I can usually get a whole paw before he wakes up and runs away. If I don't they get really long and snag on things.
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I've noticed cats are used to clipping their nails if you just do it while they're really relaxed and you don't manhandle them/wrestle with them to get just one paw done.
 
I remember when I was a kid I really wanted a cat. So my mom ended up finding someone who wanted to find a new home for theirs. He was pretty old but honestly he was the cutest cat I've had. The poor thing had been declawed and forced to live completely outside, I'm honestly surprised he wasn't feral. He was the most scratched up mangled cat I'd ever had or seen, and was missing some of one ear. But my god he was the sweetest cat, he'd been devoid of attention for so many years, that he'd adore getting any form of attention. We'd put little socks and baby dresses on him, and he'd just lay and purr.

I remember one time the chick who gave him to us came over to visit and was shocked by how loving he was being, and mentioned whenever he tried giving her or her family attention they'd always push him away or throw him outside. Fucking cunt.

Cat's are surprisingly not assholes, at least to me in my experience. And that's because animals for the most part can still feel emotions. Don't be a dick and your cat won't be a dick back. Fuck people who declaw cats.
 
I found a starved, skeletal, dirty cat out in the woods by my friend's house one time. I didn't find her so much as I was standing in the driveway and she came to me from the woods, where over a few days hung around the house and wouldn't leave - sat by the windows, by the doors, meowed incessantly. I thought she was a sweetheart because she didn't scratch me all up to shit when I decided to take her, took her home and gave her a bath. I chalked it up to her being weak and emaciated. I looked for her owners but nobody claimed her. The vet later said she was completely declawed, front and back claws, malnourished, obviously a house cat, and that probably someone dumped her or something. The cat died six months later very suddenly but she was the chillest cat I've ever had. She followed me everywhere, came to me when I called her, we had kind of a bond. It bothered me to think she was out there, wherever, for how long, and couldn't hunt or at least protect herself because her only real form of defense was taken away. So she was probably reduced to hiding much of the time. This cat was so fucked when I found her, ears ripped, mangled, so fucked my friend wouldn't pet her she grossed him out because she wasn't just skinny, she was just bones. So yeah, fuck declawing.
 
What everyone else has said. Declawing a cat is equivalent to chopping off their fingertips. It also deprives them of their only natural defense. One may think house cats are just that and will never go outside, but cats are clever and always hellbent on trying to go where they aren't normally allowed. A cat that escapes outdoors needs their claws because the first dog that happens along will try to kill them. Nature is an asshole, and even domesticated animals are instinctively predatory.

If you're that worried about your furniture then buy scratch posts, invest in leather upholstery or don't have a cat.
 
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